<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 12 April 2005), see www.w3.org" />

  <title>Prerequisites</title>
  <link href="book.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  <meta content="DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets V1.73.0" name="generator" />
  <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="EPIC - User's Guide" />
  <link rel="up" href="ch01.html" title="Plug-in Installation" />
  <link rel="prev" href="ch01.html" title="Plug-in Installation" />
  <link rel="next" href="ch01s02.html" title="Installing EPIC" />
</head>

<body>
  <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <div class="titlepage">
      <div>
        <div>
          <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="prerequisites" name=
          "prerequisites"></a>Prerequisites</h2>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
      <div class="titlepage">
        <div>
          <div>
            <h3 class="title"><a id="N1000F" name="N1000F"></a>Eclipse</h3>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <p>Before installing the EPIC plug-in, a recent version of Eclipse has to be installed. The
      minimum requirement is version 3.1 of Eclipse for EPIC 'stable' and version 3.2 of Eclipse
      for EPIC 'testing'.</p>

      <p>Eclipse comes in two flavors. The <span class="emphasis"><em>SDK</em></span> version
      contains Java IDE components and is much larger than the <span class=
      "emphasis"><em>Platform</em></span> version. If you only want to use Eclipse as a Perl IDE,
      the Platform version is sufficient. If you are in for Perl and Java coding, use the SDK
      version.</p>

      <p><span class="emphasis"><em>Eclipse does not include a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You
      will need a 1.4.1 level or higher Java Runtime or Java Development Kit (JDK) installed on
      your machine in order to run Eclipse.</em></span></p>

      <p>Eclipse can be downloaded from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.eclipse.org" target=
      "_top">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p>
    </div>

    <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
      <div class="titlepage">
        <div>
          <div>
            <h3 class="title"><a id="N10025" name="N10025"></a>Perl</h3>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <p>In order to have all EPIC features like Syntax Checking, Source Formatting etc., a Perl
      interpreter is needed. In principle any Perl interpreter can be used. To use debugging within
      Eclipse, Perl version 5.8.x or 5.6.x is required. For further requirements concerning the
      debugger, see <a class="xref" href="ch02s09.html" title="Setting Up the Debugger">the section
      called “Setting Up the Debugger”</a>.</p>

      <p>Most *nix/Linux installations will provide Perl interpreters out of the box.</p>

      <p>Perl for Windows can be downloaded from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.activestate.com"
      target="_top">www.activestate.com</a></p>
    </div>

    <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
      <div class="titlepage">
        <div>
          <div>
            <h3 class="title"><a id="N10034" name="N10034"></a>Considerations when using
            Cygwin</h3>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <p>Make sure that the mount command is available and that it is in your system path. As mount
      is a standard component of Cygwin, you usually just have to add the cygwin\bin directory to
      your system path.</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
